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PHP Laravel 4 Basics Getting Started with Laravel Installing Laravel Homestead

Brian Patterson
Brian Patterson
19,588 Points
Posted by Brian Patterson
Brian Patterson
19,588 Points

Putting the location of .ssh keys

I have the latest version of homestead and it is showing me this in the .yaml file.

authorize: ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub

keys:
    - ~/.ssh/id_rsa

Do I still have to write the file path in?

1 Answer

Michael Hulet
Michael Hulet
47,913 Points
Michael Hulet
Michael Hulet
47,913 Points

I know this is an old question on a course that's retiring soon, but no, I don't think you have to change anything. The tilde (~) a special character that basically acts as a placeholder for your home folder. For example, on my system, my home folder is at /Users/michael/, so writing ~/.ssh for me is exactly equivalent to writing /Users/michael/.ssh